installing ubuntu with speakup

rking correctly? Use server version? Use desktop version? Do something else? I do not need any desktop environments, just the plain command-line interface with speakup Thank you very much in advance, talk soon --David -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessib

RE: installing ubuntu with speakup

OK let me take another look tomorrow before I wipe out the whole thing again, but from what I remember espeakup installed successfully, but I am unable to find speakup_soft on the module list, and thus no speech I don’t want GUI anyway, so I was using server 22.04 --David From

RE: installing ubuntu with speakup

Thank you, I will keep that in mind if I have to reinstall with the desktop option, but if I can install without X that would also save some disk space [not that it matters much with a large disk these days] --David -Original Message- From: Ubuntu-accessibility On Behalf Of Jude

RE: installing ubuntu with speakup

OK let me try that and see if it comes up --David -Original Message- From: Jude DaShiell Sent: Friday, February 03, 2023 5:00 PM To: David ; 'Volodymyr Dorozhinsky' ; ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: RE: installing ubuntu with speakup Default for speakup

RE: installing ubuntu with speakup

Ke[K[Kexit From: Ubuntu-accessibility On Behalf Of Volodymyr Dorozhinsky Sent: Friday, February 03, 2023 9:27 AM To: ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: Re: installing ubuntu with speakup Hi David, I am currently using Ubuntu-Mate 22.04 and I've managed to install e

RE: installing ubuntu with speakup

and wasn't able to, thus asking if someone has step-by-step instructions to make sure I didn't missed anything Thanks again 😊 --David -Original Message- From: Jude DaShiell Sent: Monday, February 06, 2023 12:37 PM To: David ; 'Volodymyr Dorozhinsky' ; ubuntu-

RE: installing ubuntu with speakup

OK, then I guess adding the module manually myself, if that is possible? --David -Original Message- From: Jude DaShiell Sent: Monday, February 06, 2023 1:17 PM To: David ; 'Volodymyr Dorozhinsky' ; ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: RE: installing ubuntu wi

RE: installing ubuntu with speakup

How do one use the generic kernel while installing? I just pop the disk in, boot, and follow the questions [well, someone is reading them to me] --David -Original Message- From: Jude DaShiell Sent: Monday, February 06, 2023 2:00 PM To: David ; 'Volodymyr Dorozhinsky'

RE: installing ubuntu with speakup

into switching the distro to, say, Debian, or something that would hopefully work 'out of the box' --David -Original Message- From: Jude DaShiell Sent: Monday, February 06, 2023 5:44 PM To: David ; 'Volodymyr Dorozhinsky' ; ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.co

RE: installing ubuntu with speakup

I guess I am lucky I have had good experience with Debian so far. It was suggested that ubuntu is supposed to work better with the hardware I am about to be installing on [at work] but since I am testing on some different hardware [at home] I can't tell if that is true or not --

RE: installing ubuntu with speakup

I am not sure what I did/didn't, I think it could be the version update that did the trick, I now see the speakup_soft module available, but I am still not getting speech on the console, which is about where I was about 2 clean installs ago ... david@ubuntu:~$ inxi -S System: Host: u

RE: installing ubuntu with speakup

speakup_soft --David -Original Message- From: Jude DaShiell Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2023 5:20 PM To: David ; 'Volodymyr Dorozhinsky' ; ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: RE: installing ubuntu with speakup Try running insmod speakup-soft and see if you ge

RE: installing ubuntu with speakup

Modprobe speakup_soft gives no output [no news is good news] Still no speech, insmod still fails --David -Original Message- From: Jude DaShiell Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2023 6:21 PM To: David ; 'Volodymyr Dorozhinsky' ; ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: RE:

RE: installing ubuntu with speakup

modprobe: FATAL: Module speakup.speakup_soft not found in directory /lib/modules/5.15.0-60-generic --David -Original Message- From: Jude DaShiell Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2023 7:54 PM To: David ; 'Volodymyr Dorozhinsky' ; ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com S

GOK + Ubuntu no longer explodes!

Just wanted to give a heads up that we just releasedGOK v1.2.1 and it appears to (finally) work around the GOK + Ubuntu + wacom crasher. Here is the tarball: ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gok/1.2/gok-1.2.1.tar.gz cheers, David -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility

Announcing GOK v1.2.1!

== * What is GOK? == GOK enables users to control their desktops without having to rely on a standard keyboard or mouse. It includes a suite of on-screen keyboards as well as dynamic keyboard generation. Please see http://www.gok.ca/ for details. ==

Beryl/Compriz Zoom and negative functions

Hi, I have been discussing the possibility of expanding the accessibility options of Compriz/Beryl (which I belive is now called OpenCompositing, but don't quote me ;) ). They seem very keen to enhance these functions and I've given them some suggestions, I'm sure they'd welcome more input. See

Beryl/Compriz Zoom and negative functions continued

Sorry, forgot to mention, I mapped the zoom function to the mouse scroll wheel and the right mouse button to negative image, works very well and feels very intuitive. -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-acces

Re: Status of IBM a11y

That was painful to read. David Peter Parente wrote: > Hello all, > > Yesterday, IBM decided to change strategies with respect to GNOME > accessibility: > > http://www-03.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/schwer > > Under this new plan, IBM is no longer suppo

OCR software in Ubuntu

Can anyone recommend any OCR software (commercial or otherwise) for reading newspapers/letters/bills with in Ubuntu? -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility

Sticky keys - now work for me with this 'solution'

t; accesibility > keyboard. I noticed that 'stickykeys_two_key_off' was still ticked which did not seem logical given my choices. So I unselected it and since then have not had a problem. Hope this helps - sorry, I don't know a CLI way of doing it. David -- Ubuntu-accessibility

Assistive Technologies

ange the 'defaults' to my needs? 2. On the same vein, does anybody know where I can define (or how to in a script) the Caps Lock key as a modifier key so that it, too, will beep when pressed? Many thanks, David -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.

Re: New developer

oo, that good software may not be gnu or free and so this is one item I wish I could buy for ubuntu (linux). Please excuse me saying this as I know many hate 'unnecessary' emails. But I have read hundreds of posts and constantly hear the mantra 'it must be free' which I think is a bi

RE: Vibuntu developments

Hi Anthony, I look forward to trying your distribution and letting you know what we find! We have Ubuntu 8.10 set up in our library (alongside the others: Windows and Mac) for our clients to trial. Seems like we are on the same path as we've been looking into a similar project. Regards,

Laptop screens

Hi, Does anybody know of any laptop (suitable for linux) that allows the user to display the screen in mirror image? Available preferably in Australia and/or the UK? Much needed but I can't find any. Many thanks, David -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessib

Re: Laptop screens

On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 01:42 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > David Ryder, le Thu 12 Mar 2009 06:50:12 +1100, a écrit : > > Does anybody know of any laptop (suitable for linux) that allows the > > user to display the screen in mirror image? > > What do you mean by "mir

Re: Laptop screens

On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 02:34 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > David Ryder, le Thu 12 Mar 2009 12:29:34 +1100, a écrit : > > On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 01:42 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > David Ryder, le Thu 12 Mar 2009 06:50:12 +1100, a écrit : > > > > Does anybody kn

Re: Speech problem upgrading from Intrepid to Jaunty.

o search the solution using Google, but I founded only solutions > for people who installed Ubuntu using the installation cd and had other > problem, such as espeak speaking too fast. > > Could anybody help me? Last but not list, is this the right place to ask > this question? > > Tha

How to access administration apps

Just installed ubuntu 9.04 what is the way to access the administrative applications and other such things that run as root with orca? * nalin linux [091016 20:13]: > hello friends, > I am sathyaseelan. I am a chess player and blind person. I > met witha an accessibility problem in gn

Installing latest orca on 9.04

Is it possible? If so, what are the steps to get the latest and greatest orca running on Ubuntu 9.04 David * Luke Yelavich [091021 12:15]: > On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 08:46:26AM EST, Bill Cox wrote: > > Sorry guys, I know there's some of you out there who actually work

Making voxin use alsa?

Hi, I remember there is a way to make voxin use alsa with gnome speech services, but I forgot... Anyway, system sounds are not playing while it's talking which means one is using oss or something Oh, using ubuntu 9.04 and voxin 0.24 on 64bit machine * Luke Yelavich [091024 13:39]: > On Sat, Oct

Accessible mail clients

I am really getting fedup with evolution, which other mail clients are accessible with orca? David -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility

Re: Listening to my Music Collection in Natty?

I use mpd and mpc or mplayer depending on what I'm doing but then I don't mind command line stuff. mpc is fairly easy to figure out and the man page is very informative. mpd is not hard to configure either. mpc is just a plain command line app so it should run fine in gnome terminal or from a scri

killing and restarting orca properly ubuntu 11.04

bring orca back? Then I can make a script to completely kill and reload orca and crashes wouldn't be such a problem... David -- David Sexton +91 9400223351 -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility

Help I broke speakup and orca in ubuntu 11.04

to normal so I guess spd-conf modified something orca needed. How can I get these two to play nicely together? Failing that, how to get orca back to normal. David David Sexton +91 9400223351 -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/m

Re: Help I broke speakup and orca in ubuntu 11.04

I got orca back to normal by copying a working /etc/speech-dispatcher folder to the computer, but still no working speakup David David Sexton +91 9400223351 On 5/27/2011 8:12 AM, David Sexton wrote: Help! Happily speakup comes in the ubuntu 11.04 kernel... Here's what I did that brok

Re: Vinux 3.2 Released!

Great work! Is there a more accurate way to download this other than http? torrent for example. What about a USB edition? David David Sexton +91 9400223351 On 6/27/2011 11:44 PM, Tony Sales wrote: I am happy to announce the release of Vinux 3.2 based on Ubuntu 11.04 - this is a cutting

orca, capslock in 11.04

Hi, Using laptop layout in ubuntu 11.04 when I use capslock+keys it changes capslock state on or off. How do I stop this? -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility

Re: FOSS Workshops Update:Registration Date Extended Upto Aug-23rd, 2011

documents in an accessible format? Given the complete disregard of my previous email informing the same, I highly doubt the conference's commitment to full accessibility and question the purpose of such workshops. -- David Sexton Consultant Catalyst and systems administrator International

Re: [orca-list] Problems with Orca and pidgin...seems to be an at-spi2-core issue

Hi, If you go to plugins and add the one which says append a newline to incomming messages... you'lll see first messages. David On 26/03/12 04:05, Guy Schlosser wrote: Hi Jakob, yes, I can confirm the issue with pidgin as far as speech goes. Whenever I press enter after typing in a me

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Re: magnify in Ubuntu 12.04

oom (super+button4 Zoom in / super+button5 Zoom out) Your are two choices : - for low vision with orca + compiz (work partially) - for blind : gnome-session + no effect (without compiz) David 2013/7/11 Milton > Hi, > I use Ubuntu 12.04 Unity 2D with Orca 3.4.2. For a friend with low vis

Re: {Spam?} Re: magnify in Ubuntu 12.04

sudo apt-get install gnome-session-fallback compizconfig-settings-manager compiz-fusion-plugins-extra 2013/7/11 Milton > ** > Did you install the 2 compiz packages from the terminal? > > - Original Message - > *From:* David Casson > *To:* Milton > *Cc:*

participate

Hi, I shall like helping you and bringing my help. I'm a partially sighted person and I use ubuntu for several years. Mainly I use gnome fallback session + compiz for the zoom. I think of reinstalling my system, of working you mainly on the LTS or all the distributions? Best regards

Re: What IM client works best

even if your msn is a different address than live.com, just add a random name and then go through the oauth process to authorize the proper address. There is also a jabber skype gateway through jabbim.com, but it hasn't been that stable for me. it costs about $9 a year. David On 30-10-2013 10:

Re: how to make an image of /dev/sda1

Hi, first mount the sd card mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt and then dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/mnt/mybackup dd will copy the whole partition including blank space and so might not fit on your 4gb sd card. If you can reinstall xp then it would be better to just backup your important documents David

Re: blurry view with magnification in Gnome

I am learning as I go with all this and my level of understanding is still not that great. I only recently suffered from low vision due to a retina tear in my left eye. My right eye has been next to useless since I was 14. I am now 62. I also have to configure Windoze 7 for my voluntary work that

How to use the HUD in Xenial with Orca?

When I tap the alt key, I get an entry area, typing into this results in silence from orca until I dismiss the thing. How is this supposed to work? if, for instance, I type 'settings' into the hud, when a browser window is focused, is the preferences page supposed to come up? Thanks, Dav

Re: Ubuntu mate accessibility

Hello! May I suggest a single-panel Mate layout like Redmond!  To set this,  Do, from the run dialogue or terminal: mate-panel --reset --layout redmond This will result in a layout having only a bottom panel, and a single menu, having all of Applications, Places, and System menu items. y

Re: Ubuntu mate accessibility

Looks like I was wrong re:  the 'sudo -g' Thought I'd done that somewhere else?  Need to check.  Thanks for letting me know. -Dave On 04/01/2018 11:12 AM, Pavel Vlček wrote: Thanks for your help with panel, it works now perfectly. When I run sudo -g gparted, I get message about invalid g

Adding Stream URL to Rhythmbox in 18.04?

Long ago, I could add radio station url to rhythmbox, but I csnnot find an accessible way to do this in the version found in 18.04.  If, instead of looking for this option, I select a saved stream url and use the 'open with rhythmbox' option, nothing seems to happen.  Should I just use totem fo

Is Orca included in the minimal installation of Ubuntu 18.04?

I like the idea of this installation option, but wonder if the accessibility will be included in the result? -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility

Ubuntu-mate 18.04 Fwd: [orca-list] mate tweek tip

Greetings! Is there, in fact, any tab other than 'desktop icons', on the mate-tweak application?  If other tabs exist, such as 'keyboard', 'layout', etc, I cannot get to them, using the included orca screen reader.  The message below suggests a work-around for this problem, but I cannot do it

Re: Grub Beeps

I'm assuming you are OK with editing /etc/default/grub and once finished editing it issuing the update command. Always best to keep a copy or two of a known good working /etc/default/grub somewhere - off-line if necessary. Playing something as grub starts has always been fairly easy. At the end o

Re: Ubuntu Software Centre

On Mon,https://anchor.fm/dave-goldsbrough 8 Jun 2020 at 13:00, < ubuntu-accessibility-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com> wrote: > Send Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list submissions to > ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > htt

Other than mate does any of the other desktops work well with orca?

Hi, I use mate with orca, because of its built-in accessibility. Does any of the other desktops and the newest gnome releases work well with orca too? David -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility

Re: detailed review of GOK

any > onscreen keyboard on the X Windows system. > I confirm the problems faced with using the system core pointer. Overcoming the problems has caused a great deal of developer pain. Henrik, if you and ubuntu could help improve the gok feedback (dialog) --

Re: Testing plan

and forums. It can be detrimental IMO. I'm not exactly sure what function the larswiki should serve and we are open to suggestion from the a11y community. cheers, David Samuel Thibault wrote: Hi, Just to let people know about the Accessibility Application Development HOWTO

Re: Testing plan

Henrik, Henrik Nilsen Omma wrote: David Bolter wrote: We are happy to add authors to: http://larswiki.atrc.utoronto.ca/wiki Perhaps you should consider opening it up as an actual wiki. I think that would encourage more people to contribute. I'm involved in running several Moin wiki

Re: Common AT config panel

Small tangent... Brian Cameron wrote: Henrik: I do not think that this completely solve the "how do I set my accessibility preferences when I can't do anything until the preferences are set up." Perhaps a set of hotkeys are necessary to launch the different accessibility tools so that a user

Re: [Kde-accessibility] Accessibility Summer of Code projects

Peter Korn wrote: Hi Henrik, Cool stuff. For the on-screen keyboard, please consider doing something like "gok --simple" (assuming folks like David Bolter agree). Yes. This is difficult though, since I can understand both sides of the fence here. My biased (gok maintainer) opini

Re: [Kde-accessibility] Accessibility Summer of Code projects

Henrik Nilsen Omma wrote: David Bolter wrote: Peter Korn wrote: Hi Henrik, Cool stuff. For the on-screen keyboard, please consider doing something like "gok --simple" (assuming folks like David Bolter agree). Yes. This is difficult though, since I can understand

hello

some coding.  I have done limited coding though not in several years.  However I can still read most code and figure out most of what is going on. thanks,David -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility

ESpeak and other sound with Ubuntu 7.04

ce if I do aplay *.wav& aplay *.wav& aplay *.wav& aplay *.wav& I can hear the files being played simultaneously on top of each other. So, any clues? --David. -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility

Voxin and simultaneous sounds.

server, or is there another way to achieve the same result? --David. -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility

Re: popularity of linux?

Well, RedHat is for the enterprise, no? Not sure how popular Fedora is. --David. -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility

Re: Orca script language manual

> I would like learn how can i make script for Orca with new applications. > Have any good documentation with orca script language? Orca's scripting language is python. My suggestion is to look at Orca source code, but no idea if there are good docs on API or whatever. --David.

Re: a problem with the live cd

oes it really justify leaving a lot of people without the chance to practically use the system? --David. -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility

Re: a problem with the live cd

a bad idea, but sadly, Hardy installation experience will be a downgrade. --David. -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility

Re: a problem with the live cd

e > differently to how they were done in the past. You're of course right, sorry for the rant :-) --David. -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility

Re: Speech-dispatcher as a service?

bably harder to manage. --David. -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility

Re: Linux WISH LIST

he boot menu could read directly the grub menu config file. At present we are not working in this project due to the lack of human resources, but i'd like to continue as soon as possible. I hope this information would be usefull. Best regards. -- David -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ub

Re: why using graphics mode for a11y?

se. Also, speaking for myself, I don't think using orca requires imagining how the interface actually looks like. Things like menus and so on are abstractions in my mind, I don't really care how they are presented. --David. -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility

Re: why using graphics mode for a11y?

virtue to using it. AC is popular because of the herd mentality. I could play this game all evening. But I have more productive things to do. --David. PS The herd mentality is often also known as economies of scale. -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https

Re: dictation

I must say I think having good dictation software would be nice, but I also must say I don't actually know of anyone who uses it. But I suppose many could say the same about Orca so it's not a good way of measuring. --David. -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-acc

Re: Solution to No Sound from Second Sound Card

> Trying to fix the volume using Orca was certainly a challenge. There is a fairly accessible program to do this, it's called gnome-alsamixer. Some of the controls are not exactly well labelled, but it works fine. HTH, --David. -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-acces

Re: Ubuntu Karmic 9.10 Koala positive feetback relatedtoaccessibility and speech responsiveness

gnome-alsamixer also works pretty well as a mixer. --David. -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility

Accessibility on Live CD.

etter option for this task? Any help appreciated, --David. -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility

Re: Orca braille feature not working in Ubuntu 12.10?

Morning Sir, Hammer Attila contacted me from this address:'hamm...@pickup.hu', and told me to write to you about this business.What do I need to do? Christmas won't be long now. Goodbye Sir David Lindsay. -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.u

head tracker using webcam

heads instead of a hand-controlled-mouse. The problem is they all are only for windows and closed-source. So my question is: do you known of any equivalent proyect open-source ? Regards. David - -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https